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An overvie w of England Prepared by Pham Thi Thanh Thuy B Typical things of England Typical things of England Typical things of England Th e Th am es Houses of Parliament Typical things of England Westminster Abbey 2. How big is England in comparison with other parts in Britain? Eng l Gre and ha s a • sm t Britai an are n (= a of alle 2 r 130 43,0 = 33 than 00 s ,423 Viet 1,69 • th q km km2 n e bi 0 a k m m2 , ov gge ) : er h st c alf o ons titue f nt p a rt i n Br itain 3. Popular cities London, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Nottingham Physical Geography of England Topography Climate England’s topography Highland Zone 1. in the north and west 2. has big hills and mountains  industrial areas 3. eroded areas broken by valleys and plains 4. more rainfall, less sunlight cooler 5. thin and stony soil Lowland Zone 1. in the south and east 2. has mostly rolling plains, low hills 3. Extensively inhabited, farmed and grazed 4. less rainfall, more sunlight 5. fertile land England’s Climate Temperate maritime mild 00C ≤ ... ≤ ≈ 300C  Damp  subject to frequent changes England’s temperature Warmest wettest Dec + Fogs, mists and overcast skies are frequent in the Pennine and inland regions winter spring summer autumn 978m Coolest, dry wettest Sunniest warmer summer & cooler winter Cool summer regionMild winters Heavy rain River Thames most important river in the southern England rises in four headstreams main source of water supply of London Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) On the eastern end of the Houses of Parliament Is 13.5 tonnes First rang in 1859 The name of the biggest of the five bells in the clock tower Intricacies at Westminster Abbey, London Westminster Abbey from the back Westminster Abbey Located in London most famous church in GB Built bw. 11th and 19th The tombs of famous citizens (Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, etc.) Became a World Heritage Site in 1987 Images of England River Thames Big Ben Westminster Abbey Houses of Parliament Bobbies Double-decker Buses The Rose The Oak Cricket Houses of Parliament = New Palace of Westminster is the seat of the British legislature Built in the mid 19th on the site of the medieval royal residence= Palace of Westminster destroyed a great mass of buildings on the east bank of the Thames River cover an area of > 3 hectares and contain 1100 apartment, 100 staircases and 11 courts Bobbies nickname for policeman named after a Sir Robert Peel casually called Bobby = Robert It was Bobby who created London’s police force in 1820s – one of the greatest advances in the 19th Double-decker buses can be seen all over Britain first appreared in 1950s with the name Routemaster only the red ones in London not as popular as the Tube – heavy traffic= 6m/h = horse-drawn horses Images of England River Thames Big Ben Westminster Abbey Houses of Parliament Bobbies Double-decker Buses The Rose The Oak Cricket The Rose national flower of England has been Englands’s emblem since the Wars of the Roses = Civil wars (1455-1485) royal house of Lancaster royal house of York The oak traditional tree of England the strength and endurance regarded as the “monarch of the forest” Images of England River Thames Big Ben Westminster Abbey Houses of Parliament Bobbies Double-decker Buses The Rose The Oak Cricket Cricket since the 1500s England’s national game played mainly among middle class symbolizes a slow and peaceful rural life is also popular in formerly British colonies (India, Canada, Australia, and Pakistan) Lake District Lake District Lake Windermere, Lake District Stonehenge AS le S imp ketc h Stonehenge • Made up of great tones= megaliths = simple and crude structures = used as tombs • It consists of a ring of megaliths surrounded by a bank of dirt and ditch. Many holes were also dug within the large bank Who labored to transport and build these massive rock structures and why did they build them? No easily understood reason Special features about Stonehenge At dawn in midsummer (summer solstice), the sun shines divide the circle of stones in directly half Intrigues archaeologists These early builders knew more about the solar system and the universe They used the spacing in the circle to predict the solar and Lunar eclipses by calculating angles of the light